Việt-Xô-Trung đoàn kết (Democratic Republic of Vietnam 100-dong stamp, 1954)
100-dong stamp inscribed 'Bưu điện Việt-Nam' showing three portraits (Malenkov, Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong, left to right) before the Soviet, Vietnamese and Chinese flags, with the slogan 'Việt-Xô-Trung đoàn kết' and the dates '1950 18-1 1954'. Placing the Vietnamese leader between two allied leaders and flags lends him their standing (transfer); the slogan names unity without saying what it requires (glittering generality).
- Date
- 1954
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Democratic Republic of Vietnam postal service (Việt Minh authorities)
- Region
- Southeast Asia
- Medium
- Stamp
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Ho Chi Minh
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- First Indochina War
- Techniques
- TransferGlittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons tags PD-Vietnam; stamp issued 1954 in Vietnam; extmetadata Copyrighted: False)
Democratic Republic of Vietnam 100-dong stamp, 1954; via Colnect and Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
100 ĐỒNG BƯU ĐIỆN VIỆT-NAM VIỆT-XÔ-TRUNG ĐOÀN KẾT 1950 18-1 1954
100 DONG VIETNAM POST VIETNAM-SOVIET UNION-CHINA SOLIDARITY 1950 18-1 [18 January] 1954
Read from the 1024 px image. 'Xô' is the Vietnamese rendering of 'Soviet'; 'Trung' is China; 'đoàn kết' is rendered 'solidarity' (literally 'unite and bind').
